Film Description:"The first big mistake Ralph makes is not clearing the snow from the front walk, and his life goes downhill from that point on. By the end of the story, the mailman has fatally slipped on his job, Alice, his wife, doesn't live there anymore, and Ralph resolves to stop worrying -- about the body, his wife, and the front walk."-- National Film Board of Canada
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Award won by Special Delivery

Quote about Special Delivery

"Be sure to shovel the snow off your sidewalk. That's the sly, tongue-in-cheek message of Special Delivery, the National Film Board's third Oscar winner in two years. It picked up the prize for Best Animated Short in Los Angeles last night. [...] Special Delivery, made by film board animators Eunice Macaulay and John Weldon, is all a series of lines that continually re-form to make chairs, tables, people, houses, cars and everything else."
-- Sid Adilman
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